Jerry's Lefty Guitars newest guitar arrivals. Updated weekly!: June 2012

Anderson Crowdster Plus 2 3 Color Burst 6/30/12

This is like a guitar with super powers. It can play just about any kind of music you can think of (and likely a bunch you can't). Acoustic, electric, rock, gospel, anything, everything.
Crowdster Plus 2 3 Color Burst pictures by jerrysleftyguitars - Photobucket

Collings 001 Custom used left handed guitar 6/30/12

Beautiful used Collings 001 Custom. Englemann top with a perfect Amber Burst. The Collings small body guitars are the reason you started playing acoustics; you hoped you could fine something this good.
001 Custom used pictures by jerrysleftyguitars - Photobucket

Suhr Pro S6 Custom Bengal Burst left handed guitar 6/30/12

Suhr Pro S6 Custom. Pearl Pickguard, Stainless Steel frets, and G&G OHSC.
Pro S6 Bengal Burst Custom pictures by jerrysleftyguitars - Photobucket

Larrivee RS-2 Daphne Blue left handed guitar 6/30/12

Larrivee's wonderful little RS-2 in Daphne Blue. Made in USA of all the best components. Hand made by Matthew Larrivee and only $960. Nothing else like it.
RS-2 Daphne Blue pictures by jerrysleftyguitars - Photobucket

G&L ASAT Special Custom Blue Swirl used left handed guitar 6/30/12

Very unusual ASAT Special with a Legacy bridge and trem. Bowling ball Blue Swirl that powers up when the lights hit it. Cool guitar.
ASAT Special Custom Blue Swirl pictures by jerrysleftyguitars - Photobucket

Reverend Jetstream 390 Metallic Blue left handed guitar 6/30/12

Mint condition, discontinued 3 P90 model. Reverend is only making runs of 12 of 1 to 2 models a year now in lefty.
Jetstream 390 used pictures by jerrysleftyguitars - Photobucket

Tropical storm Debby update 6/27/12

So Tropical Storm Debby is finally sliding across the state and taking her rain with her. About 18 inches of water surrounded the shop for a few days but it is receding today. We had about 10 inches of rain here, but 15 inches at the Sarasota Airport and about 25 inches a few miles south of here. Here is a photo from the shop porch looking toward the creek (it is on the other side of the fence). In North Carolina they have a great expression for what happened here "the creek got out".

PRS Custom 24 order.

These are the PRS Custom 24s I ordered on the June 15th:

Color 10 Top Flame Quilt

Goldtop

Natural yes yes

Eriza Verde yes yes

Faded Blue Burst yes yes

Charcoal Burst yes yes

Purple Hazel yes yes

Santana Yellow yes yes

Solana Burst yes yes

Faded Blue Burst yes yes

Faded Gray Black yes yes

Eriza Verde yes yes

Whale Blue yes yes

Yellow Tiger yes yes

Faded Blue Jean yes yes

Natural yes yes

Turquiose yes yes

Blue Mateo yes yes

They should start arriving in October.

Collings I35LC Faded Red left handed guitar 6/20/12

The second lefty I35LC. To find guitars like this is why I got into this business.
I35LC Faded Red pictures by jerrysleftyguitars - Photobucket

Collings 290S Faded Red left handed guitar 6/20/12

Great looking mahogany on this Collings.
290S Faded Red pictures by jerrysleftyguitars - Photobucket

Anderson Drop Top Koa Custom left handed guitar 6/20/12

Killer Koa sound, Killer Koa look.
Drop Top Koa Custom pictures by jerrysleftyguitars - Photobucket

Les Paul Custom Alpine White 1997 used left handed guitar 6/20/12

A 1997 Custom in Alpine White. Can it really be possible a 1997 is a 15 year old guitar?
Les Paul Custom Alpine White 1997 pictures by jerrysleftyguitars - Photobucket

Kauer Daylighter Express used left handed guitar 6/20/12

Doug Kauer is building some wonderful guitars.
Kauer Daylighter Express pictures by jerrysleftyguitars - Photobucket

Eastman AC320AC Custom left handed guitar 6/20/12

Eastman stains their spruce top mandolins, why not flattops? I like it.
AC320CE Custom pictures by jerrysleftyguitars - Photobucket

1963 Gibson ES330 left handed guitar 6/7/12

A 1963 330 in Trans Red. Life is good right now.

Rickenbacker 360/6 Fireglow used left handed guitar 6/7/12

This was from the last small run of lefty Rics in 2008. I got 2 4003 basses from that run. This great looking Fireglow is in perfect condition.
360-6 Fireglow used 2008 pictures by jerrysleftyguitars - Photobucket

Gibson Les Paul 1956 Reissue (R6) Goldttop used left handed guitar 6/7/12

Mint condition R6 Goldtop. What an LP should be.
Les Paul Goldtop 1956 Reissue used pictures by jerrysleftyguitars - Photobucket

Rickenbacker 370/6 Jetglow 2008 used left handed guitar

A 370/6 lefty Ric! Like new condition.
370-6 Jetglow used 2008 pictures by jerrysleftyguitars - Photobucket

Zematis GZ501 Diamond used left handed guitar 6/7/12

I'm looking forward to giving this mint Zematis a go this weekend. Cool looking guitar!
GZ501 Diamond used pictures by jerrysleftyguitars - Photobucket

ALL THAT'S NEW AT JERRY'S LEFTY GUITARS!

Visit us at: https://www.jerrysleftyguitars.com

This is a way for me to immediately let you know what has arrived on a weekly basis. I will be posting all new guitars first on this blog with links to Flickr and pricing. They go on my website soon after if I did not sell it directly as a result of someone seeing it on this blog first. It usually takes about a week for a guitar to go from blog to website. Please direct inquiries about buying guitars you see on this blog to my email or phone. I've sold hundreds of guitars from the blog that have never made it to my website or the "sold guitars" pages on the website. If you see something you are interested in, email or call. Whomever asks about a particular guitar gets the first refusal on the guitar. You can subscribe to this blog so every time I post you get an email. That way you know the day anything new arrives. I'll likely be posting weekly, letting you know what's up in the lefty guitar world (or my little corner of it anyway).

There will probably be some growing pains (certainly on my part!) with this blog, but I'll figure it out eventually.

Click on any photo in this blog for a LARGE photo.

I've now subscribed to Flickr to host my photos. They present the photos much better than Photobucket. I currently have over 2200 guitars (over 44,000 photos) on Flickr. Click on "Albums" to see all the guitars on the account. I'll be keeping the Photobucket account as I have over 1800 guitars on there already.

On Photobucket, you can click on the "view all albums" under the 10 albums shown on the right (bottom of Sub-albums list) and access all the manufacturers (about 70 right now) files that I have photos for. Beginning 7/30/11 I have started adding sub-albums to all the albums so you won't have to search all the photos in an album to find the specific one you are seeking. You can find the sub-albums on the left hand side of the album page. For example, if you want to see the Collings MF, you click on the Collings album and then click the MF sub-album. I started doing this when I realized some of the albums were getting so massive. Who knew I would have over 60,000 photos of ONLY lefty guitars!

My Guitar Story...

I'm Jerry Welch, owner of Jerry's Lefty Guitars in Sarasota, Florida.

I bought my first guitar (a right handed Martin Vega V845, because I'm right handed) in 1975 just before my 21st birthday. Two weeks later I cut off my left index finger in a construction accident (I was a full time carpenter since age 17). I thought my guitar playing days were done.

A few years later, I decided I really wanted to play and it seemed playing left handed was the answer. Having a full hand to fret with seemed more important than a full hand to strum with. So I became a lefty player. I banged around on that turned around Vega for years before deciding to find a factory lefty. Any lefty knows what happened next, frustration. Not even 1% of guitars built are lefties, even though 8% to 10% of the population are lefties.

I eventually accumulated a large collection of lefties but was unhappy with the limited choices all lefties have. I wanted more choices so I spoke with many manufacturers about making more models available. I was told pretty unanimously that they would be happy to make me lefties if I would order them in quantities that would make production feasible. So I did, and here I am a dealer.

I'm finally getting to play a wider range of instruments. I'm having guitars built lefty that have never before been available. I'm working every day to expand the lefty playing options.

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